wedrifid comments on Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians - Less Wrong

90 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2011 09:13PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 22 April 2011 10:13:21PM 0 points [-]

I find it interesting how many people here (including myself) assumed you literally voted it both up and down.

And for extra irony it is interesting to note that I wasn't one of them and it didn't even occur to me that it would ever be taken literally. I make the same criticism/compliment myself from time to time and don't actually click anything given the technical equivalence. Actually voting up and down is an optional extra for those with a truth fetish.

Comment author: handoflixue 22 April 2011 10:29:01PM 0 points [-]

tests Per another commenter, the second vote seems to supersede the first vote, so they're actually not technically equivalent, interesting :)

That said, I didn't put any great weight in it being literally true, nor am I offended that it was a joke. It's the sort of joke I'd make myself; it just seemed slightly more likely/interesting[*] that it was meant literally :)

Comment author: wedrifid 22 April 2011 11:04:57PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, you have to click the second one twice. ;)

Comment author: handoflixue 23 April 2011 01:01:01AM 0 points [-]

Based on the karma for my last comment (-2), I'm hoping someone simply forgot that step :)

Comment author: wedrifid 23 April 2011 07:18:54AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure what happened to the voting in this thread. I assume someone took offense at the whole conversation. Never mind.